The Pigstye

Yesterday we were getting ready to put the siding on the back of the garage and my sons heard a bat. We finally found it tucked back behind the vapor barrier. In order to not kill the bat, it we cut the vapor barrier and extracted it. Here are some pictures . It is a Little Brown Bat, the most common bat in North America.

This howto assumes that you have your DNS setup correctly to point to this server as the backup MX. It is installed on the Basic Debian Server

This howto assumes that you have Exim4 running on Debia n similar to the previous article about setting up Exim4 with Courier IMAP and Maildirs. (Courier, IMAP, and Maildirs are not required).

This howto shows how to set up TLS SMTP Authentication on the Courier/Exim4 setup.

This howto lists how to install Exim4 with Courier IMAP using Maildirs on the Basic Debian Server.

Today I encounterned a little Northern Ringneck Snake. It was in the rocks in front of my garage. The pictures here are of it on the garage floor.

They are fairly uncommon around this area, even though I have seen several on my property. I found s everal in a pile of rocks I was moving. The one I encounterd here is rather small about 10 inches long. The get up to 15 inches lo ng. It is a rather beneficial snake that eats insect larvae, salamanders, earthworms and frogs.

One of the prominent features of my land is the presence of geodes. They are everywhere. Whenever you dig a hole you run into geodes. In the spring, when you start mowing again you have to watch out for geodes that surface during the winter during the freeze/thaw cycle.

They range in size from pebble size to as big as my head. Some have blue and or red crystals; some are only white. Some have cavities some don’t. Here are two pictures of some geodes.

This is a basic howto on installing Ruby on Rails with FastCGI on Apache2. I assumes that you are using the Basic DebianServer with Apache2 with Perl and PHP already working.

I am embarking on a project of recording the woods outside my office by taking a picture a day of the wildlife, flora, or fauna and posting it here.

Today I found some interesting mushrooms and took pictures of them. Not being a naturalist, this is only a guess but I think they are of the Ramaria genus, specifically Ramaria Stricta.

Basic instructions for installing Apache2 on the Basic Debian System.